I have just got back from tesco....had to get a few bits on way home from work. The woman on the check out said to me "so how long you got to go then?". I said oh another 10 weeks yet, so she said "god, you are big then aren't you!??".

She had this massive warty mole thing on her neck...and I was so tempted to say oh yes, and so's that thing on your neck love!! Ooh how awful am I?!! But how comes people think they can comment on your size?!! Its like you become public property...plus no-one makes any allowances for your size in the supermarket..the number of people that nearly knocked into my bump was really cheesing me off i can tell you!! Not saying that coz preg expect people to be over the top and helpful, but a bit of consideration wouldn't go amiss now would it?!!

Anyone else found this?!!

Good luck to you all, sorry for the rant, but feel much better now...LOL!!

Nikki

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Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:35 pm

Tere5a

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Joined: Mon Jun 20, 2005 1:13 pmPosts: 387Location: Essex

at 28 weeks I dont think anyone really notices that I am pregnant when I have got my jacket on no one has said anything to me at all, well not yet anyway, I'm sure my time will come though!

Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:44 pm

sarah+egg

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Joined: Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:30 pmPosts: 338

Well............to add insult to injury....i'm near on 15 weeks..have a bump(shocking)..

A lady at work came running up to me and said "how u doing to day tracey" (my name is sarah)... she said "oh sorry i thought you were Tracey- didn't look at the face just saw your tum!!" (well tracey is 6mths pregnant...)

She asked me how far gone i was...

"four months" - i said..
"OH" - she said... how rude...she looked at me as if i was abnormal..

any one would think i had a exceptionaly big belly..i haven't and it was relativly flat before i concieved!

blinkin cheek!

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Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:51 pm

cher34

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Joined: Fri May 27, 2005 9:45 amPosts: 25Location: scotland

hi there!

nikki i totally agree with you! im 28 weeks and because my bump is big i always get comments from total strangers! the thing i hate the most is when people ask "are you pleased about it?" or "are you still with the father?" just because my boyfriend and i arnt married people automatically presume im on my own!!! people say such stupid things sometimes!!! sorry about the mini rant. hope all is well with you. cheryl x

Thu Nov 03, 2005 5:59 pm

Natalie B

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Joined: Sat May 21, 2005 12:40 amPosts: 1117Location: Essex

I know what you mean, I use to get really pissed off with people when I were pregnant with Angelina people always use to say 'your really big, you look like your about to pop' or something along the lines or 'are you having twins?' People were saying this at 6 months pregnant, how rude are people!

I use to get fed up with people with their trollys, or the people that take up the seats and stare at you as if your some sort of moron wanting a seat especially the old people they think they have sole rights but some of these old people look really healthy and don't need a seat they just use the excuse of being old.

Nat

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Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:19 pm

emm-25

When i went to buy my washing machine last month the guy in the shop turned round and said " i hope your not going to drop in here!" i said dont panic i wont be as im not due till feb, he didnt know where to look, then again the other day i had to go back to the shop to buy a tumble dryer as mine packed up (typical) and he didnt say i word.

I went out with my Mum for a celebration for finding out about the little man and that everything was ok, and I was sat down rubbing my belly as he was kicking away. I then went up to the bar - (orange juice and lemonade for me!!) and this woman said ohh is it kicking, I said yes and with out even asking or anything she put her hands on my belly to try and feel it, I just stood there in complete shock Her husband then turned round to me and said wow arn't you big, you look like your about to give birth right here, I replied and said no still got 4 months to go and they both proceded to tell me that I will never make it to that!! Isn't that nice

Joys of strangers!
Take care all x
Clara xx

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Thu Nov 03, 2005 7:16 pm

sparklegirl

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Joined: Thu Aug 11, 2005 9:43 amPosts: 52Location: WORTHING

i don,t mind people saying nice things about my bump,i mean i am huge(28 weeks)and people are always saying"wow what a big bump,or if im with my lovely mum she likes to tell the whole world that im not really about to drop that my son was big etc we have big babys in the family blah blahi was a big babys etc etc,its when people just stare like they,ve never seen a pregnant women,everytime i go into town,it drives me mad or even worse are those in sensitive arseholes that say"what an awful place it is now to bring up a child,how dangerous it is,how if they were young they wouldn,t have childre in this terrible world we live in"with all the terriorists and pollution",that really does pee me off.luckly i have a car now,but when i was pregnant with my son,liven in Brighton i use to have to relay on the buses,and the amount of ignorant and rude people that just take up all the seats,so selfish

Now I am virtually due it doesn't bother me so much but it used to drive me mad. I got quite big very quickly and it would do my head in when people said I looked ready to pop and I was only about 6 months gone! I've also had 'is it twins?' several times as well!

i get annoyed by people who can see you there and see you trying to squeeze past in the shop with a big bump and still move even further back so you cant get through the turning round and elbowing you in the bump and not even apologising. before i was pregnant and even now i will make room for someone to pass by. i don't ask for much just for some concideration. if they are not knocking you over they are making comments about your size. i'm always being told i look small and will have a small baby but compared to my prepregnancy waist it must be at least 3 times the size now and my scan shows my baby is going to be big! anyone who knows me knows how big i am to what i was before its the perfect strangers who say your small. then your get the odd one or two who say your big (bigger than even i think i am).

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Fri Nov 04, 2005 1:03 pm

G_I_L_L

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Joined: Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:41 pmPosts: 252Location: anfield liverpool

hiya girls,
ive found thisout as well, on tue i wen to get my nails done and as i was some woman said when u due so i told her and she said wow u look a lot biger then 6 monuths
then today i was having a shouting match as i was walking home from school with this lad and to cut a very long story short, i said shout up u fat bastard (he really is like the size of a whale tho) and he said me fat look at ur slef (he knows im preg aswell).
then i wen into the shop to get some crips and the woman that severed me said "should u really be buying them u look a bit big alreay and thats no good at ur age"
so i said "for ur information im fat cuz ive got a life grownin inside me!!! not becuse i eat to much so u can keep ur fuckin crips and ill go the shop cross the road" as i was stromin out she shouted "no need to be so rude"
i felt like turning round and punching her but i never as plioce were there

Ive been lucky im really small (not 2 brag or nething ) but im almost 22 but i look 16-17 and im sick of older women giving me dirty looks and whispering to each other "look how young she is", "they have them so young these days" blah blah blah!!!! im sick of it it and with my hormones i just went off on one, one day and started shouting at this woman i nearly smacked her!!! IM 22 NOT 12!!!!and even if i was a teen mum people shouldnt judge people it gets me MAD and i have had other pregnant women who are bigger than me giving me and my bump dirty looks!!! i cant help what size i am
SORRY HAD 2 LET THAT OUT

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Fri Nov 04, 2005 8:18 pm

JessandAlex

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Joined: Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:12 amPosts: 45Location: Bromsgrove

Nikky

I know how you feel, i know im only 18 but why according to some people am i scum of the earth for being pregnant.

The filthy looks i get on the bus are a nightmare and i got off in tears one day because of them.

Im keeping the baby, i have stopped drinking and am looking after myself and want to do the best for it, yet still am scum according to some.

sorry rant over lol

Jessica xxxxx

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Fri Nov 04, 2005 10:54 pm

mrsflibble

[quote="Younghappybunny"]Hi Girls

" and this woman said ohh is it kicking, I said yes and with out even asking or anything she put her hands on my belly to try and feel it"
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I can't stand bumptouchers! I can take it from family- my sister-in-law is a bumptoucher, but even she'd never dream of going for a stranger's bump!!!
you can get some really good tops shipped form America (home f the major bumptouchers aparently) that say "don't touch the bump" and stuff like that.

Sat Nov 05, 2005 6:05 pm

Northcott

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Ive been really lucky, I have only had one stranger comment on my bump and she said it was a nice neat bump. I didnt mind her commenting as she was nice